ABSTRACT
Moore’s paradox concerns utterances of the form ‘p but I don’t believe that p’, as in the example above, and ‘I believe that p but not-p’. Because both parts of the utterance, for example both p and ‘I don’t believe that p’, could be true, the utterances do not seem to be self-contradictory. And although my uttering p implies that I believe it, this is not a logical implication, for if p entailed that I believed that p, it would follow from my not believing p that it was not the case that p. But clearly it doesn’t follow from ‘I don’t believe that Marilyn committed suicide’ that Marilyn did not commit suicide.
